He lacked the flamboyance of some contemporary stars, let alone the baseball greats of the present.
He lacked the flamboyance of some of his contemporary stars, let alone the baseball stars of the present.
It wasn't that he lacked the paperwork to account for his business deductions.
He was arrested and then deported from the Philippines in November 2012 because he lacked proper identification, prosecutors said.
He had a Bible and tried to read, but he often found that he lacked the concentration to do so.
Harding had dramatically cut the budget, still bloated from World War I, but he lacked the stamina to keep up the work.
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Though he was amiable, bounding to greet visitors with a beefy handshake, he lacked the common touch, and often talked in economic jargon.
Yetnikoff could be held up as an example of that shift: What he lacked in music appreciation he made up for in corporate savvy.
Running in the wake of the Republican takeover, Daschle was opposed by old lions like Moynihan and Byrd, who thought he lacked the necessary ballast.
Although he lacked capital, Singh went on a land-buying binge.
It is striking how he lacked the skills to critically question his sources of information for veracity and to filter and relate facts, arguments and interpretations.
But Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo put paid to that back in September by claiming that he lacked the experience required for F1's most successful team.
The singer-songwriter was already a popular artist in the mid-1970s, but he felt he lacked a sympathetic producer, one who appreciated Joel's bandmates as much as Joel.
He lacked subpoena power and could bring no criminal charges.
He then became foreign minister at Mr Chavez's request, prompting criticisms from some quarters that he lacked a university education as a bus driver who left school without qualifications.
At some point, while the scheme was still going but teetering, Khashoggi acknowledge part of the debt of Ultimate Holdings but claimed that he lacked the liquidity to pay it.
And though he had won professional tournaments prior to his partnership with Mr. Williams, some speculated that he lacked the intensity and urgency in his game to reach his potential.
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In the midst of law school--and before Pearl Harbor-Cap tried to enlist in Britain's Royal Air Force (he lacked the necessary depth perception), which was locked in a lethal struggle with the Luftwaffe.
He responded that a Chinese competitor of his bought two machines from him with that idea in mind but had to shut both down within six months because he lacked the qualified workers to operate them.
Mr Taylor found this hard: he lacked a power base to force through tough decisions even if he had wanted to, and so preferred to tackle big, strategic questions, such as what to do with the wholesale bank and its investment-banking arm.
He later lacked touch on a pass over the middle and then threw an interception.
But he clearly lacked the stamina to play for any length of time.
Better yet, though, was an off-handed comment made later in the discussion when Jack brought up the issue of entrepreneurs often lacking confidence in their ideas, and describing how, at points, he had lacked confidence himself.
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Without the ubiquity of those electronic images, he would have lacked the vehicle by which he could introduce himself to the voters.
He has not lacked for business: in the past twenty years, he has done some eight thousand heart operations, which exhausts me just thinking about it.
He was very rakish and gangly when he was growing and lacked strength but now he's starting to come together in terms of his physique and has done well.
He says music has always been a "powerful force" in his life, but he had always lacked the confidence to create it himself.
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